The former NFL player murdered five people in South Carolina, including a prestigious musician and two minors, before taking his own life in a new act that links American football with violence.
BY MIGUEL ENRUEZ
A police source who chose not to reveal his name said that the musician Adams killed had treated him before killing him on April 7, but at midnight on Thursday, The 33-year-old former player took his own life with a .45 caliber weapon.
The 33-year-old player shined in his playing days as a college player, where he managed to develop the potential that took him to the NFL to be drafted in 2010 by the San Francisco 49ers, then played for the New England Patriots and ended his short career in 2015, wearing the Atlanta Falcons uniform.
Like hundreds of athletes who play the sport of tackling, Phillip Adams suffered a concussion, so science could try to find an explanation for the seemingly motiveless act of killing six people and then taking his own life.
The characteristic disease that results from this style of blows is called Critical traumatic encephalopathy, which is defined as the repetition of head trauma and, in 2016, the NFL recognized that 99% of the players in its league suffer from this.
Within the s tomas that are present when an athlete is part of this condition are the p memory loss, constant headaches, poor light support before his eyes, mood disorders, suicidal thoughts and aggressive behavior.
The case of the former forty-niner is not the first to end in this situation. One of the most mentioned was that of Aaron Hernandez, star of the New England Patriots who murdered his friend Odin Lloyd in 2017. The tight end went to prison and ended his life there; later, the examination of his brain revealed that he suffered from CTE at a level never before seen in any